Today, it announced a $13.6 million investment from T-Venture,
the VC arm of German Telecom giant
Deutsche Telekom. The total raised to date is just under $27
million.

The company was cofounded by wealthy tech mogul Osman Kent, best
known for his previous company, 3Dlabs which he sold to Creative
Labs in 2002 for about $170 million.

Kent had retired from tech and was kicking around as a music
producer with his own record label (Songphonic Records) and
living in an English mansion formerly owned by Roxy Music's Phil
Manzanera, he previously told Business Insider.

But he stumbled upon a struggling company called Endeavors and
was so blown away by its tech, that he left retirement, bought
the company and relaunched it as Numecent.

Numecent offers something it calls "cloud paging" that instantly
turns any software, even an operating system itself, into
something that can be streamed from a cloud without any rewriting
of the code.

It even works when the Internet goes down, Kent says, and it
makes the software run a lot faster than traditional cloud apps.
It does this by it temporarily installing certain bits of the app
on the device.

It can also do other interesting things, like let users check
software in and out as if it were a library book, allowing
businesses to buy less software, share it with more people
without violating their license agreements.

Plus it can turn a smartphone into a server-like a game console,
where a bunch of people can play a game on it at the same time.

Red Hat is using Numecent to let Linux users run Windows
software.

So far, cloud paging has been limited to Windows software, but
Numecent will use the influx of cash to launch cloud paging
services for Android and other mobile platforms (though it didn't
mention plans for iOS yet).

It has already been used to launch a game streaming service
called Approxy, which competes with sites like OnLive and Gaikai.